Overview
- Ajaccio prosecutor Nicolas Septe said Orsoni was struck by a single projectile fired from hundreds of meters away.
- The assailant has not been identified and remains at large as authorities pursue a homicide investigation.
- Local reports said the gunman fired from cover near the cemetery in Vero during the funeral.
- Orsoni, 71, was a former FLNC figure who later led the MPA and served as AC Ajaccio president before stepping down after the club’s financial demotion in 2025.
- Analysts place the killing in the context of long-running violence involving nationalist factions and criminal clans, noting a foiled 2008 plot against Orsoni and his son’s 2025 conviction for attempted murder.